Match book



A. FISCHER MATCH 1300 Filed'Feb. 26, 1940 iiiii. i

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Patented Sept. 22, 1942 lvIATCH BOOK Aaron Fischer, St. Louis County, Mo., assignor, by

mesne assignments, to Universal Match Corporation, New York, N. Y., a corporation of Delaware Application February 26, 1940, Serial No. 320,811

1 Claim.

This invention relates generally to matchpackages. More particularly, this invention relates to a certain new and useful improvement in match-packages of match-book type and has for its object, and principally resides in, the provision, as a new article of manufacture, of a match-book having a metallized cover equipped with a match-igniting or striking surface.

And with the above and other objects in view, my invention resides in the novel features of form, construction, arrangement, and combination of parts presently described and pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawing Figure 1 illustrates in perspective a matchbook embodying the present invention;

Figure 2 is an enlarged fragmentary longitudinal sectional View of the match-book, taken approximately on the line 22, Figure 1;

Figure 3 is a perspective view of the coverblank;

Figure 4 is a similar view of the cover blank with a portion of its metallized face removed for receiving a striking or splint-igniting member; and

Figure 5 is a similar view of the cover blank equipped with a striking or splint-igniting member and now ready for incorporation in a matchbook.

Referring now in more detail and by reference characters to the drawing, which illustrates a preferred embodiment of my invention, A designates an oblong rectangular section of relatively light-Weight readily bendable or flexible cardboard suitable for use and incorporation as the cover of a match-book.

Such section A is preferably, as it may be said, of laminated formation and comprises a strip 1 of usual or common cardboard stock having upon one face a film or lining of tin, silver, aluminum, or other suitable preferably bright metallic material, or, as I may say, having one face suitably throughout brightly metallized, as at 2, such metallizing preferably being effected by adhesively applying a coating, film, or layer of the metallizing material 2 upon and throughout one face of the strip 1.

The section A is then suitably subjected to the action of a buffing-wheel or other instrumentality 3 for removing a portion of such metallized surface or film 2 the section A being thereby provided adjacent an end with a transverse recess or valley, at at a.

Subsequently, the section A is adhesively or otherwise permanently provided in its valley at with a layer of any suitable friction or splintstriking or igniting material B, when the section A is now ready for incorporation as the cover of the match-book.

Accordingly, as is today common practice in numerous match-book factories or plants, the strip A is doubled upon itself, as at 4, and thereby provided with an end-flap 5 equipped upon its outwardly presented face with the igniting material B and with a seat or compartment, as it may be said, for the connecting bases 6 of the usual match-splints C, when, by means of a suitable staple or the like I passed through the endflap 5, the match-splint bases 6, and the now rear or back portion a of the cover-section A the said parts are securely fastened permanently together in standard match-book formation, the free portion of the section A being now folded forwardly, as at 8, over the match-splints C and then downwardly for providing the usual front closure-flap 9 for the book.

The metallized cover-section A functions somewhat in the nature of a fire preventive. At the same time, the book, by reason of its outwardly presented bright metallic sheen, is exceedingly attractive in appearance and is efiicient in the performance of its intended functions. The book is simple and inexpensive in structure, and it should be understood that changes and modifications in the form, construction, arrangement, and combination of the several parts of the match-book may be made and substituted for those herein shown and described without departing from the nature and principle of my invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

As a new article of manufacture, a matchbook including a plurality of splints and a cover disposed enclosingly around the splints and having an outwardly presented metallized face, the cover further being provided on its outwardly presented face with a non-metallized area, said non-metallized area being provided with a coating of striker material having its outer surface substantially flush with the outer surface of the adjacent metallized areas.

AARON FISCHER. 

